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Lieben (2009)

by Karl Ove Knausgård(Favorite Author)

4.35 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

3630873707 (ISBN13: 9783630873701)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Luchterhand

series

Min kamp

review 1: Continuing with the Book 2, I caught myself at a sole interest, which I feel towards it's content: purely anthropological and sociological one. I am curious how do they live out there, in Scandinavia; how this schizoid guy manages his life; where his struggle leads and will it all get more vitalist by the end? The author weaves a catchy story though it gets impossible when he starts to philosophise, especially about Dostoyevsky and Russian nihilism. Sometimes his problems are interesting, sometimes utterly boring. Hemanages to balance all ups and downs so that the reader stertches out his/her hand to buy the Book 3. I am a big fan of an autobiography as a genre, especially those on the "passion for life" side, like Henry Miller. They are inspiring. This one, on the other ... morehand, shows the other side of the coin: how is it to live and unlike your life? Can it be an inspiration? I see some good concept in the series: it is such a change after all those books, in which a hero struggles with the world, loving this whole process of life's pleasures and pains. UPD i've just spent the last money i had on my account to buy a sequel by the author i've just critised and whom i've given 3 out of 5...maybe he's not that bad, after all. taking into account all those ideas about the fiction of reality and the reality of fiction.... my mind even suppressed the urgent need for that cash in the next few days so that it could get to that book three, ohmy.
review 2: Oh yes I read Book II> Damn. I wish it were shorter, I wish it would go on forever. So much here to process, how infuriating and uneven, so much dross. So self-indulgent! Ridiculous!I admit that I have a much, much higher tolerance for reading about writers trying to be fathers and husbands, especially with babies and little children...This one does lack some of the focus (?) of Book I, but the "Man in Love" subtitle is a good warning and complication. I pause before the (shorter) Book III. Perhaps I should read some of Knausgaard's fiction? Very interesting case, much to learn, often in a cautionary sense.Still:“Language is shared, we grow in it, and the forms we use it in are also shared, so irrespective of how idiosyncratic you and your notions are, in literature you can never free yourself from others. It is the other way round, it is literature that draws us together, through its language, which none of us owns and which indeed we can hardly have any influence on, and through its form, which no one can break free of alone, and if anyone should do so, it is only meaningful if it is immediately followed by others. Form draws you out of yourself, distances you from yourself, and it is this distance that is the prerequisite for closeness to others.” less

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